Meg,
First off, I have to say you are definitely not annoying!! IBS drives us all nuts at one time or another and we are all here for you! 
Secondly, I am typically D, but I'm still gonna try to help anyway! 
The prune juice sounds scary!  I'm not sure if you want to jump right into that, but I know sometimes IBS calls for desperate measures. So, I kinda have some alternatives:
Maybe try finely dicing up some prunes and then mixing them into a muffin/quick bread type of thing, that way they have some soluble fiber to kind of cushion the effect? Maybe try about 1/4 c. or so in the Honey Oatmeal Muffins ?
Second, I've heard (and personally experienced by accident) that honey is a natural laxative. I don't know how much, nor do I know if that would be as painful as the prune juice. But, then again, they are HONEY oatmeal muffins...maybe that's enough to do it? Or maybe just a spoonful in a cup of tea? I'm not sure about the olive oil.
And lastly, (and I CAN NOT BELIEVE I'm actually posting this--how embarrassing  --I hope you feel special!  Then again, we talk about BM's & gas all the time--how much more embarrassing can it get!!), about 4-5 times now (1 being last weekend) when I am constipated, I have done jumping-jacks to get things moving along. Yes, that's right. I have been known to do jumping-jacks in my bathroom in the hopes for a BM. It's worked for me about 3 times or so now. I don't know why, I don't know if it's just me, or I just got lucky, or if it would even work for anyone else--I think you get my point.  I came up with the idea back in Oct. when I was getting ready to go to my upper endoscopy and I had to go, but couldn't, and I was so paranoid I was going to get there, get ready to go in, THEN have to go. Then, I remembered how I used to hate doing jumping-jacks when I was little, because they always made me feel like I had to pee. And, that was that.
Well, now that I've totally humilated myself, I hope you can get SOMETHING to help out of that--even if it's only a laugh!
Hope you're feeling better soon!
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